Research Catalog

Title

Confronting power, theorizing gender : interdisciplinary perspectives in the Caribbean / edited by Eudine Barriteau.

Publication

Kingston, Jamaica : University of the West Indies Press, 2003.

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Details

Additional Authors

Barriteau, Eudine

Description

xii, 402 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

Extrait de la couverture : "This anthology of Caribbean feminist scholarship has several unique features. It exploses gender relations as regimes of power and consolidates and advances indigenous feminist theorizing. A particularly strong section of the collection deconstructs marginality and masculinity in the Caribbean and provides ground-breaking research with policy implications. The major breakthrough is the recognition that this area of research includes both men and women as integral to a more adequate conceptualization of society, polity and economy, thereby enabling scholars to address more fully the realities of social life. The temper of the times suggests that a significant watershed in gender studies has been reached."

Subject

• Feminist psychology > Caribbean, English-speaking
• Women in development > Caribbean, English-speaking
• Sex differences (Psychology) > Caribbean, English-speaking
• Sex role > Caribbean, English-speaking

Genre/Form

Aufsatzsammlung.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Confronting power, theorizing gender in the Commonwealth Caribbean / Eudine Barriteau -- Theorizing the shift from "women" to "gender" in Caribbean feminist discourse : the power relations of creating knowledge / Eudine Barriteau -- Women and difference in Caribbean gender theory : notes towards a strategic universalist feminism / Donna St. Hill -- A feminist's oxymoron : globally gender-conscious development / Michelle Rowley -- A symbiotic visiting relationship : Caribbean feminist historiography and Caribbean feminist theory / Patricia Mohammed -- "How our lives would be affected by the custom of having several wives" : the intersection between African history and gender studies in the Caribbean / Richard A. Goodridge -- Perfect property : enslaved Black women in the Caribbean / Hilary McD. Beckles -- Theorizing sexual relations in the Caribbean : prostitution and the problem of the "exotic" / Kamala Kempadoo --
• "What have we to celebrate?" Gender, genre and Diaspora identities in two popular cultural texts / Jane Bryce -- Feminist literary theories and literary discourse in two George Lamming texts / Margaret Gill -- Beyond the Bill of Rights : sexing the citizen / Tracy Robinson -- Theorizing the gendered analysis of work in the Commonwealth Caribbean / Ann Denis -- Gender and power in contemporary society : a case-study of student government / Elsa Leo-Rhynie -- Gender and the elementary teaching service in Barbados, 1880-1960 : a re-examination of the feminization and marginalization of the Black male theses / Aviston Downes -- Requiem for the male marginalization thesis in the Caribbean : death of a non-theory / Eudine Barriteau.

ISBN

9766401365

OCLC

• 54354155
• SCSB-12359019

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library